(I posted this on LQ but have yet to recieve a response...) Help, I've got a very bizarre error going on. I installed SUSE 10.1 on a new laptop some time ago. It is a Gateway 280m TabletPC which came installed with Windows NT Tablet Edition. All has been running for the most part since install. Ive got SMART running the show and it has been fine. I wanted to install the touch screen part of the system (stupid me) and had to reboot to Windows (first time) in order to determine what the screen was. (Gateway informed me that they design the hardware for Windows XP so dont support Linux. Yes, I wrote them.) I exited windows, and then on reboot, I cannot load anything. I get the message, "GRUB loading stage 1.5" then the machine goes into an endless cycle of rebooting. I did some searching and found some Ubuntu solutions. I loaded both SUSE and Ubuntu live DVDs and tried fiddling around with things. I cannot seem to get the grub.conf file to load. I did load SUSEs rescue system on the DVD. I tried to fix the boot loader, but go the following error: GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory) [Minimal BASH-like editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible completions of a device/filename. ] grub>setup-stage2=/boot/grub/stage2(hd0,5) (hd0,5) Error21:Selected disk does not exist grub>setup-stage2=/boot/grub/stage2(hd0)(hd0,5) error 21: Selected disk does not exist grub>quit press OK I thought, okay, Ill load LILO. Nope: Error Occurred while installing LILO. LiLO version 22.7, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Fatal: raid_setup: stat(/dev/sda) For reference, my partition table looks like: /dev/sda HTS541080G9SA00 /dev/sda1 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 Win95 FAT32 /dev/sda3 Extended /dev/sda5 Linux swap /dev/sda6 Linux native /dev/sda7 Linux native On the suggestion of one Ubuntu forum, I did the following. I went into root, typed grub, then find /boot/grub/stage1 It spit back grub> root (hd0,5) Isnt that sda5? If so, thats my swap partition. Okay, I went ahead and did the following: grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0,5) grub> root (hd0,5) Filesystem type is reiserfs, partition type 0x83 grub> setup (hd0,6) Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/reiserfs_stage1_5" exists... yes Running "embed /boot/grub/reiserfs_stage1_5 (hd0,6)"... 18 sectors are embedd ed. succeeded Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0,6) (hd0,6)1+18 p (hd0,5)/boot/grub/sta ge2 /boot/grub/menu.lst"... succeeded Nada. I still get GRUB loading stage 1.5 Ideas? -- Kai Ponte www.perfectreign.com || www.4thedadz.com remember - a turn signal is a statement, not a request